SAS/GRAPH gives you the ability to customize your graphs (or even create totally new types of custom graphs) … and it is my firm belief that it gives you a competitive advantage by allowing you to “make sense” of your data in ways your competitors c…
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It be "International Talk Like a Pirate" day – Arrr!!!
Avast Mateys! Did you know that International Talk Like a Pirate Day is coming up?!? (September 19) Here’s the official website, if you’d like more info. And what better way to get into the spirit of things than to use SAS/GRAPH to plot some real pir…
What cities have the worst (and best) commute to work?
A while back, I had seen the following map on the CEOs for Cities website. It seemed like an interesting topic and an interesting map, but I just couldn’t grok what their map was saying … So I decided to download the data and create my own map wit…
Browser wars: And the winner is …
Have you ever tried to put something on the Web, and then it looks different for other people (or maybe doesn’t work at all)? … And you eventually found that it was because they were using a different browser? That’s one of the reasons I like tradi…
Is there bias in Facebook graphs?
Facebook has millions of users, and therefore when people share an interesting graph on Facebook it can “go viral” and millions of people might see it. Some of the graphs are obviously a bit biased – especially ones that are trying to sway your opi…
Do you use SAS for analytics and Excel for graphs?
Do you use SAS for analytics and Microsoft Excel for graphs? Why not use SAS for your graphs too?!? Then you could completely automate the entire process in one SAS program, with no manual steps! A lot of people use Excel to create their graphs be…
Graphs of Olympic proportions!
Everyone in the world has their attention turned towards the Olympics this week, so what better topic to tie in to a SAS/GRAPH blog than that?!?! I had seen a graph on the guardian website that I thought was interesting, so I decided to try to create …
Visualizing evidence of a black hole, with a gif animation
Hopefully you know that a gif animation can be used for more than just showing a cartoon animal doing cute tricks! Being a savvy data-meister, I’m sure you are also aware that you can use gif animations to see how data changes over time. But perhaps…